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Tools, tips and best practices for hiring better engineers, faster.
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What Is Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide
Conversational AI is a rapidly evolving field of technology that is revolutionizing the way humans interact with machines. By enabling machines to understand and respond to human language in a conversational manner, conversational AI is making it possible for us to engage with computers and digital systems in a more natural, intuitive, and human-like way.…
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The Importance of Candidate Engagement with Coding Assessments
In today’s competitive job market, candidate engagement has become a crucial factor in the success of tech recruitment. Employers understand the significance of finding the right talent to drive their organizations forward. However, simply assessing candidates’ technical skills through coding assessments is not enough. It is equally important to engage candidates throughout the recruitment process…
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The Ultimate Back End Developer Checklist: Ensuring a Smooth Development Process
In the world of software development , a back end developer plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth functioning of a website or application. Front end developers focus on the user interface and experience. Simultaneously, back end developers handle server-side logic, database management, and system integration. Ensuring smooth development, back end developers need a…
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From Screening to Hiring: How to Create a Technical Hiring Process
Technical hiring is slightly challenging as compared to a non-technical hiring. There is a lot of depth in the rapidly evolving programming languages and frameworks. Even for programmers, you need to assess their non-technical skills such as communication, flexibility, ability to lead, etc. However, using some of the best practices along with adoption of online…
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The Importance of Data-Driven Hiring in a Competitive Talent Market
Today we will discuss data-driven hiring as it relates to recruiting software developers. We will provide an overview of what data-driven hiring is, its benefits, what kind of data is important to track, and what are the most common data limitations. What is Data-Driven Hiring Data-driven hiring is an approach centered around collecting data and…
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What is Pre-employment Testing and How it Can Help You Hire Better Talent
Do you use pre-employment testing in your hiring process? If not, you probably should (and we’ll explain why later). If yes, there may be tools and services to make your screening even better. In this article, we’ll explore what pre-employment testing is and the benefits associated with it. We’ll also take a look at some…
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The Top 5 Coding Challenges for Conducting Technical Interviews
Evaluating the technical skills of a candidate is not an easy task. For technical positions, especially where programming is involved, a code challenge is one of the ways to evaluate a candidate. You will see many general code challenges involving arrays, LinkedList, sorting, and so on. While these coding challenges do evaluate candidates to some…
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The Top 6 Technical Assessment Tools for Hiring Software Engineers
Recruiting for technical roles can present its own set of challenges. One of these challenges is determining the true level of skill and expertise of a candidate based on their resume alone. This is where technical assessment tools can help. Today, we’ll discuss what technical assessment tools are, how they help employers and some of…
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What’s New in January 2023: Introducing R Language Support, Security Updates & More
With the new year come new CodeInterview features to help you screen and evalute technical talent. Here’s a summary of our latest updates: Introducing R language support and other new libraries Want to try these out? Scroll down on the languages tab to select them under the ‘Core’ option: Bug fixes and other improvements As…
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The Top 5 Coding Interview Tools to Hire Better Software Engineers in 2024
Did you know the cost of a wrong engineering hire can go up to 3x their annual salary? That’s because costs go beyond repeating the recruitment process. A bad hire could impact team morale, reduce productivity and even harm your reputation as an employer. This is why thoroughly evaluating talent during the hiring journey is…
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7 Tips On How To Onboard New Developers
The role of technical staff in business, such as web developers and software engineers, is quickly growing. They create, design, manage and maintain websites, apps, and online systems. These professionals also help come up with a cohesive and user-friendly process for company teams and clients. These are just some of the many functions and roles…
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5 Technical Recruiting Tools for Hiring Developers at Scale
Recruiting in general is complex and takes multiple tools. When it comes to technical hiring, it becomes even harder as you need to evaluate candidates on different languages and technologies in addition to culture and soft skills. This is where tech recruiting tools come in. It’s surprising how many companies, even big, established employers, rely…